I thought I'd read pretty much everything King had written, but I cant remember Bag Of Bones. I googled it and it doesn't sound familiar. Strange. At least I have another book to put on manliest. Don't know how I missed it.

motherscratcher wrote:I thought I'd read pretty much everything King had written, but I cant remember Bag Of Bones. I googled it and it doesn't sound familiar. Strange. At least I have another book to put on manliest. Don't know how I missed it.

motherscratcher wrote:I thought I'd read pretty much everything King had written, but I cant remember Bag Of Bones. I googled it and it doesn't sound familiar. Strange. At least I have another book to put on manliest. Don't know how I missed it.

That's being made into a TV movie too. With Pierce Brosnon.

I loved that book. I consider that another "classic King book" too.

Most people that love King love that book. People with lower levels of King-Love tend to not like it.

"It's like dating a woman who hates you so much she will never break up with you, even if you burn down the house every single autumn." ~ Chuck Klosterman on Browns fans relationship with the Browns

I always hear about how I need to read The Gunslinger. I assume it's tied to most of the other Dark Tower series, but i'm not sure if i'd have to read other books in the series to get a frame of reference.

Cerebral_DownTime wrote:I always hear about how I need to read The Gunslinger. I assume it's tied to most of the other Dark Tower series, but i'm not sure if i'd have to read other books in the series to get a frame of reference.

The Gunslinger is the 1st of the Dark Tower series. He wrote it in the 70s. It is the shortest by far of the books. You can read it on it's own, but I don't know how you could read it and not want to continue. The first 4 or 5 books of Dark Tower are phenominal. Just a wonderful story.

I was hooked from the first line: "The man in black fled across the desert and the Gunslinger followed."

e0y2e3 wrote:No seriously, King is not a good writer. His works are meh. I've read ten and the only one that inspired me was IT.

He is the Real Housewives Franchise of Writing.

Reading him religiously defines cutting yourself out of unique thought.

Yeah, awesome, we get it. He's not Cormac McCarthy.

I spend a lot of time reading dental journals and text with medical and dental and sciencey stuff. When I go to bed I like to read fiction for 10 to 15 minutes. Sometimes I like that fiction to be Stephen King because I like a lot of the stories he tells. I find them interesting and entertaining without having to think a whole hell of a lot about "what it all means".

I know you don't like to waste time with less than Tolstoy. That's fabulous. Maybe you can get on Keith Law's bowling team.

motherscratcher wrote:I thought I'd read pretty much everything King had written, but I cant remember Bag Of Bones. I googled it and it doesn't sound familiar. Strange. At least I have another book to put on manliest. Don't know how I missed it.

That's being made into a TV movie too. With Pierce Brosnon.

I loved that book. I consider that another "classic King book" too.

Most people that love King love that book. People with lower levels of King-Love tend to not like it.

I thought that was actually one his better ones.

I think King is a great storyteller, just horrible with dialogue. And he manages to cheese up the ending sometimes. I can only take him in doses.

Fantastic book. Very entertaining. Written by Max Brooks who is the son of funny man Mel Brooks. This book is beyond anything I ever read in my life. Very realistic at how the USA and the entire world could be taken over by zombies. Some of the "interviews" hit me hard whenever it involved a child. Made me think of my daughter.

JJN wrote:^The Morningstar Saga by the late Z.A. Recht and Day by Day Armageddon by JL Bourne are better than World War Z, IMO. The two books by Recht (Plague of the Dead & Thunder and Ash) were brilliant.

I gotta check them out. It's going to be a long winter and I'm open to more good zombie books. WWZ has like 100 short stories or "interviews" which is fascinating to me.

Just finished it, took about 10 days. That's pretty good for an 840-page book. Grabbed this because it is a time-travel book, not b/c it is Stephen King. Still, ole Steve knows how to turn a tale. Good voice to the characters and it brings small-town living in 1960 alive. I've read reviews where people who lived at that time say King's vision is pretty accurate.

If you're reading it for JFK stuff you'll probably be disappointed. Takes about half the book to get to that part. But King keeps the story moving. It's good enough. Not a great book, but it's a pretty good story.

P.S. Swerb, you might enjoy a book called Without Warning. It's a combo of Under the Dome and Tom Clancy novels. One day the world wakes up and some kind of invisible force field has covered most of the U.S. No one knows where it came from. Touch it and die. Everything inside appears to be gone. All that's left of the U.S. is Hawaii and Alaska and Seattle, plus overseas troops and other Americans abroad. It's a good thriller that gets into political intrigue, spy stuff, and the apocalypse.

GodHatesClevelandSport wrote:P.S. Swerb, you might enjoy a book called Without Warning. It's a combo of Under the Dome and Tom Clancy novels. One day the world wakes up and some kind of invisible force field has covered most of the U.S. No one knows where it came from. Touch it and die. Everything inside appears to be gone. All that's left of the U.S. is Hawaii and Alaska and Seattle, plus overseas troops and other Americans abroad. It's a good thriller that gets into political intrigue, spy stuff, and the apocalypse.

Sounds cool. I will have to check it out.

"It's like dating a woman who hates you so much she will never break up with you, even if you burn down the house every single autumn." ~ Chuck Klosterman on Browns fans relationship with the Browns

GodHatesClevelandSport wrote:Just finished it, took about 10 days. That's pretty good for an 840-page book. Grabbed this because it is a time-travel book, not b/c it is Stephen King. Still, ole Steve knows how to turn a tale. Good voice to the characters and it brings small-town living in 1960 alive. I've read reviews where people who lived at that time say King's vision is pretty accurate.

If you're reading it for JFK stuff you'll probably be disappointed. Takes about half the book to get to that part. But King keeps the story moving. It's good enough. Not a great book, but it's a pretty good story.

Thanks! I picked it up, but I'm in the middle of another book right now, so I won't start that until probably after the holidays. I'm not specifically reading it for the JFK stuff...I do love a good time travel book, and Stephen King rarely disappoints me.

After I'm done with this, I'll probably check out your other recommendation, Without Warning. The plot of that one sounds interesting as well.